Psalm 9

₁I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart;

I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

₂I will be glad and rejoice in thee:

I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

₃When mine enemies are turned back,

They shall fall and perish at thy presence.

₄For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;

Thou satest in the throne judging right.

₅Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked,

Thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

₆O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end:

And thou hast destroyed cities; Their memorial is perished with them.

₇But the LORD shall endure for ever:

He hath prepared his throne for judgment.

₈And he shall judge the world in righteousness,

He shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

₉The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed,

A refuge in times of trouble.

₁₀And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee:

For thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

₁₁Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion:

Declare among the people his doings.

₁₂When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them:

He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

₁₃Have mercy upon me, O LORD; Consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me,

Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

₁₄That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion:

I will rejoice in thy salvation.

₁₅The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:

In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

₁₆The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:

The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

₁₇The wicked shall be turned into hell,

And all the nations that forget God.

₁₈For the needy shall not alway be forgotten:

The expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

₁₉Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail:

Let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

₂₀Put them in fear, O LORD:

That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.